Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rating of American metropolises, they write, "is like a snapshot of a moving target." No picture is fuzzier than that of No. 1 Pittsburgh. It received no outstanding marks in eight categories--its best was seventh in education--and it accumulated no low ones. "Pittsburgh is like the Steelers' front line," observes Boyer. "Not incredibly strong in any one area, but consistently good overall...
...makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning that the mirrors would always hover over one spot on the earth's surface, to give the mountaintop stations a constant target to aim at. The geosynchronous mirrors would detwinkle the beam and reflect it to "battle" mirrors in low earth orbit. The battle mirrors would aim the laser beam at missiles or warheads. The mirrors would have to be gigantic, as much as 90 feet in diameter for the geosynchronous variety...
...this not as a utopian dream but as an ominous threat: it was clearly their nuclear arsenal that Reagan most wanted to consign to the ash heap of history. The effect, as they saw it, would be to neutralize Soviet retaliatory forces and thereby make the U.S.S.R. a tempting target for a first strike...
...I.R.A.'s use of homemade mortars is an old tactic, but one that had met with little success in the past. The Newry station had once before been a target, in 1980, when shells missed the police post but injured 26 civilians near...
...R.U.C. station. The nine metal tubes on the truck--each 6 ft. long and 6 in. in diameter--were linked by detonating wires, suggesting to police that they had been fired by timing devices. Despite the apparent sophistication of the weapon, not all the shells found their target. Some fell in front of the station. One hit an observation tower, showering shrapnel onto nearby homes. Said Chief Superintendent Bill Stewart: "It was luck on the part of the I.R.A. rather than accuracy that gave them their direct hits...